Karen
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Danish Karen.
Pronunciation [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
- A female given name. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- 1878 Celia Thaxter, Drift-Weed, Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
- Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
- 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen, W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
- I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
- 1878 Celia Thaxter, Drift-Weed, Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Burmese ကရင် (kăyin, “wild, low-caste man”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
External links [edit]
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages
Etymology 3 [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
- A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Կարեն.
Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
A medieval variant of Katharina (“Catherine”).
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
- A female given name.
References [edit]
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 83 320 females with the given name Karen have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
German [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
- A female given name borrowed from Danish Karen.
Icelandic [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈkʰaːrɛ(ː)n/
Proper noun [edit]
Karen f
- A female given name
Declension [edit]
declension of Karen
Sometimes also Karen in accusative and dative.
Norwegian [edit]
Proper noun [edit]
Karen
- A female given name of Danish origin.
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- English proper nouns
- English female given names from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Burmese
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- German female given names
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- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian female given names